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by freen 2y ago
Societies decide if they are pro-social or anti-social. Pro-social is more work. It’s harder. It is caring, sensitive, flexible. You have to give a shit because society actively disapproves of and discourages not giving a shit. No one wants
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by freen 2y ago
Catal Huyuk, Mohenjo- Daro, Harappa, Tripolye-Curcuteni, Norte-Chico, Hopewell, Ain Ghazal. Populations from hundreds of thousands to tens of thousands of people, over the course of millennia, in effectively completely egalitarian, likely
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by freen 2y ago
They never seem to be grumpy about spam getting deleted. It’s always “why can’t I be mean to people without consequences?” Or, “I should be able to be racist/ableist/discriminatory and you have to host my vitriol or else you are v
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by freen 2y ago
Unelected multinational corporation: still just a bunch of people. A bar, or a music festival is also possibly an unelected multinational corporation. Still can kick people out. I wonder, why can’t I go into the lobby of the Sony building i
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by freen 2y ago
Facebook hosts a party. If you don’t kick assholes out of your party, the party becomes less fun, and then there are only assholes in the party. Yes, it is in fact targeting specific people: those who make the party less fun and protecting
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by freen 2y ago
Yup: MLK’s moral arc of the history definitely bends towards making fun of disabled people.
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by freen 2y ago
Gonna hazard that if the above gets moderated/deleted, our new friend “eff-tagline” won’t complain that my freedom of speech is being impinged.
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by freen 2y ago
How dumb does one have to be to fail to realize that kicking an asshole out of a party (read website/app/whatever) isn’t the government censoring you. Xkcd covered this in detail, what a decade ago? https://xkcd.com&#x2
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by freen 2y ago
To people with a heart, yes, that’s a bug. For everyone else? It’s a feature. The cruelty is the point.
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by freen 2y ago
Climate change is watching photos of disasters start at a great distance from you, but year after year they get closer and closer until you are there, taking the picture yourself.
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by freen 2y ago
Tell that to monks. Or, your atomic family. Or heck, the bulk of the Neolithic.
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by freen 2y ago
“In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” - Yogi Berra
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by freen 2y ago
Markets are not guaranteed to converge. “The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent” There are price makers and price takers. Guess which side labor is on?
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by freen 2y ago
The harsh law of hacker news: For any topic outside of strict software development, the strength, viciousness and certitude of opinions expressed is inversely proportional to the level of knowledge about the subject. https://www.
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by freen 2y ago
There are standardized diagnostics and measurements of severity for many, if not most, psychological disorders. There is an extremely large body of evidence that therapy substantially improves psychological disorders as measured by these di
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by freen 2y ago
Kleptocracy is a word for a very real reason.
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by freen 2y ago
SQLite operates in the same process as the app. No network overhead, no socket overhead, etc. The tradeoff is all your eggs in one basket, so to speak.
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by freen 2y ago
Main-Main Replication: LiteFS Streaming Backups: LiteStream Just missing logs and, well, for me, graph database.
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by freen 2y ago
Ahh, yes, the insurance industry, clearly in the thrall of the woke left.
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by freen 2y ago
Seems like a perfect job for Datasette: SQLite plus web api and UI “Datasette is a tool for exploring and publishing data. It helps people take data of any shape, analyze and explore it, and publish it as an interactive website and accompan
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by freen 2y ago
The gulag doesn’t care.
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by freen 2y ago
You are making a distinction without a difference. That you do so with such voraciousness, makes it seem like you are keen to defend those labeled fascist/authoritarian/etc. Split hairs all day, the gulag doesn’t care.
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by freen 2y ago
Well done avoiding the rest of my comment. Fascists may participate in a peaceful transition of power in order to gain power, then do not allow for peaceful transitions of power in the future. Jan 6 was an unsuccessful attempt to prevent th
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by freen 2y ago
If a sufficiently large number of participants, with sufficient resources participate, then any open source project with sufficient utilization and value will receive funding. Lots of “sufficients” in there, of course.
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by freen 2y ago
Ahh, so we lack a definition, no one is fascist, and killing political dissidents is equivalent to fair and legal elections. Good is equivalent to evil, because both are hard to define. He can’t be a monarchist, he doesn’t believe in mercan
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by freen 2y ago
Yes: but do they use collectively agreed upon rules? Do they agree that it is possible, and even more importantly, good that they can loose? Will they end the system that empowered them once in power? Liberal, meaning non-fascist, political
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by freen 2y ago
Yes, Ian Kershaw is precisely right! It is very difficult to define because it is a means by which one, either a person, a party, an ethnicity, whatever, pursues and attempts to preserve power regardless of the will or interests of the peop
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by freen 2y ago
You are trying to align a governance type with a political spectrum. It’s a category error. Fascism has nothing to do with the policies, and everything to do with whatever is necessary to retain power, given the society fascists intends to
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by freen 2y ago
Italy, Germany, Spain… Mussolini, Hitler, Franco… Fascists don’t come out and say: Vote for me, and I’ll commit genocide, and have thought police and assassination squads! No: fascists want power, will use that power to take aways yours, an
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by freen 2y ago
You’ve made the classic error: assuming that anyone who tries to become president is acting in good faith. A well funded bad faith candidate will ALWAYS beat any good faith candidate. Why? You can tell everyone you’ll do exactly what they w

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